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List Of Animals Of The Sawtooth National Recreation Area
This article is an incomplete list of the species of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish found in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in central Idaho.Alden, Peter and John Grassy. "National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Rocky Mountain States". New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Gray wolves were reintroduced to central Idaho in the 1990s while grizzly bears have been extirpated from the area, and plans to reintroduce them have been abandoned. The Sawtooth National Recreation Area supports habitat for Canada lynx and wolverines, but there have been no recent sightings. Birds *'' List of birds of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area'' Mammals * American badger * American beaver *American marten * American pika * Bighorn sheep * Black bear *Bobcat * Brown rat * Bushy-tailed woodrat * Canadian lynx * Columbian ground squirrel *Common raccoon *Cougar *Coyote * Deer mouse * Elk * Fisher * Golden-mantled ground squirrel *Gray wolf (reintroduced) *Grizzly bear (extir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mammals
Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or hair, and three middle ear bones. These characteristics distinguish them from reptiles (including birds) from which they diverged in the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. Around 6,400 extant species of mammals have been described divided into 29 orders. The largest orders, in terms of number of species, are the rodents, bats, and Eulipotyphla (hedgehogs, moles, shrews, and others). The next three are the Primates (including humans, apes, monkeys, and others), the Artiodactyla ( cetaceans and even-toed ungulates), and the Carnivora (cats, dogs, seals, and others). In terms of cladistics, which reflects evolutionary history, mammals are the only living members of the Synapsida (synapsids); this clade, together with Saur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
